Our Team

Meet the legal minds behind Flood Law

Founded in 2002, Flood Law began as a unique group of former prosecutors committed to using our inside knowledge of the justice system to protect and defend our clients. We’ve grown into a powerhouse team of skilled, relentless litigators with one shared mission: to fight for your rights. With more than 150 years of combined trial experience, we know Michigan law and how to win. Whether your case involves civil litigation, employment disputes, or federal or state criminal charges, our attorneys stand ready to guide you, advocate for you and deliver results aligned with your goals.

Todd Flood

Managing Partner

Todd Flood is the managing partner of Flood Law, PLLC, and has a proven track record of trying more than three hundred cases.

Kevin Simowski

Senior Attorney; Chief Operating Officer

Kevin Simowski is a former Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor who adds 22 years of experience to the Flood Law team.

Michael D. Weaver

Senior Attorney

Mike Weaver is a distinguished defense attorney at Flood Law. With 90+ defense trials, he brings 36 years of experience to the team.

Vincent Haisha

Partner

Vincent Haisha is a Partner at Flood Law and a principal member of the Criminal Practice Group.

Allexa Otto

Associate Attorney

Allexa Otto is an Associate Attorney at Flood Law PLLC and a graduate of Wayne State University Law School.

Katherine Kobiljak

Associate Attorney

Katherine Kobiljak is an Associate Attorney at Flood Law PLLC and a graduate of Detroit Mercy Law School.

Hannah Berghol

Associate Attorney

Hannah Berghol is an Associate Attorney at Flood Law PLLC and a graduate of Wayne State University Law School.

Brook Barlow

Office Manager

Nelson Miller

Paralegal

Sydni Thomas

Legal Assistant

Kyra Newman

Paralegal

Tori Conklin

Paralegal

Peter Martel

Project Manager

Todd Flood

Before establishing Flood Law, Todd worked as an Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor. As a prosecutor, Todd litigated and tried various cases, including homicides, complicated fraud cases, narcotics trafficking cases, criminal sexual conduct cases and general crimes. Before leaving the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, he was promoted to Principal Attorney in charge of the Drug House Unit under Mike Duggan. While in the Drug House Unit, Todd successfully litigated against absentee landowners, including the DNR and mortgage holders, to clean up blighted houses used to sell narcotics.

Since leaving the Prosecutor’s Office, Todd has been recognized for litigating complicated civil claims, including wrongful death suits, civil rights violations and whistleblower actions.

Todd’s work has earned him several recognitions, including Top Lawyer in the State of Michigan, A Fellow of the State Bar – an honor earned by less than one percent of the Bar – a Fellow of the Oakland County Bar, recognition from Crain’s Detroit Business as a top lawyer, multiple awards in the Super Lawyers publication, and a Lawyers Weekly Award as one of the Top Ten Lawyers of the Year in the State.

Some of Todd’s most notable work has been in courtrooms across the state. These cases include defending complicated RICO prosecutions, homicides, and corporations and individuals facing the might of the government. Todd’s experiences have also led him into the arena of conducting investigations, including matters involving companies, universities, hospitals and local municipalities.

Todd has regularly been called upon to step in to prosecute cases while in private practice, having been designated a Special Assistant Attorney General to prosecute cases in Oakland County and assist in prosecuting a pharmaceutical company.

Kevin Simowski

Kevin Simowski is a former Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor with 22 years of experience. While at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, Kevin was a key member of the criminal appellate and the special assignments divisions. Notably, he obtained convictions of Martell Welch for a murder on the Belle Isle Bridge in Detroit, as well as Lawrence DeLisle for first-degree murder resulting from the drowning deaths of his four children in the Detroit River. Kevin was also the architect of Wayne County’s highly successful homicide unit. Before leaving the Prosecutor’s Office, Kevin was the Chief of Staff and Chief of Operations.

In 2004, Kevin became the Chief of the Criminal Justice Bureau with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. He directed five divisions, including Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement, Corrections, Criminal, Criminal Appellate and Healthcare Fraud.

After a brief time with the Michigan AG, Kevin became the Vice President of Operations at the DMC Cardiovascular Institute and Corporate Vice President for Cardiovascular Service. Kevin spearheaded the DMC’s Accountable Care Organization, one of the nation’s first such organizations. He helped the DMC achieve external ratings by the U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best hospitals and Leapfrog Group Top Hospitals.

Michael D. Weaver

Mike Weaver is one of the Michigan’s most accomplished trial attorneys with approximately 90 cases tried to verdict. He represents an array of commercial clients directly and through their insurance providers, and his litigation practice includes such areas of product liability, general liability, insurance law, employment law, Title IX claims, premises liability, motor vehicle liability and civil rights.

Weaver earned his undergraduate degree in 1986 from Arizona State University and his law degree, cum laude, in 1990 from Michigan State University College of Law. He has been named among the Best Lawyers in America® for commercial, labor and employment and product liability litigation defense. Michigan Super Lawyers has honored Weaver for his employment litigation defense expertise, and he has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer review rating-AV Preeminent™

Vincent Haisha

Vincent Haisha is a Partner at Flood Law and a principal member of the Criminal Practice Group. Vince specializes in drunk driving litigation and medical marijuana defense, in addition to a large variety of state and federal offenses.

For two years in a row, the American Institute of DUI/DWI Attorneys has recognized Vince’s exceptional performance in the courtroom, naming him one of the 10 Best DUI Attorneys for Client Satisfaction.

Vince has successfully advocated for and defended clients in all District and Circuit Courts in Southeast Michigan and Monroe, Emmet, Livingston, Washtenaw, Crawford, Gaylord, Kalkaska, Ionia, and Grand Traverse Counties. He has also argued before the Michigan Court of Appeals and prepared and filed briefs before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Vince joined Flood Law in 2010, during which time he prepared motions, briefs, and legal memoranda for a variety of complex legal issues in the criminal and appellate practice groups.

During this time, he specialized in Fourth Amendment issues regarding search and seizure and unlawful police stops. In 2012, Vincent joined the Firm’s Criminal and Appellate Divisions, aggressively litigated, and helped overturn several wrongful convictions.

Vince is a University of Michigan graduate and earned his law degree from Wayne State University.

Allexa Otto

Allexa is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctor in May 2024 and passed the July 2024 Bar Exam. During law school, Allexa served as Executive Article Editor for the Journal of Law in Society and was a Legal Research and Writing Teaching Assistant. Allexa completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University, graduating with honors in Criminal Justice while also earning minors in Law, Justice, and Public Policy, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation. As an undergraduate, Allexa participated in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which brings traditional college students and incarcerated individuals together through collaboration and dialogue to explore issues of crime and justice across profound social barriers.

Katherine Kobiljak

Katherine is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she graduated cum laude, and then passed the July 2024 Bar Exam. While at UDM Law, she was the president of the Environmental Law Society and a member of the St. Thomas More Society. She attended Michigan State University for her undergraduate education, majoring in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy at the James Madison College. At MSU, Katherine was a member of the Honor’s College and was a consultant at the MSU Writing Center. Outside of legal work, Katherine is a certified tennis professional and an Alpine Ski Patroller, as well as the Vice President of the Grosse Ile Nature and Land Conservancy, where she is the editor of the nonprofit’s newsletter.

Hannah Berghol

Hannah is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctor in May 2024 and successfully passed the Michigan Bar Exam in July 2024. During law school, she competed in the TYLA National Trial Competition and served as Commissioner of Wayne Law’s In-House Mock Trial Team.

Hannah also collaborated with the university to help create a high school mock trial program and has played an active role in teaching and mentoring participating students.

She completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University in 2021, graduating with honors in Political Science Pre-Law and Psychology, along with a minor in Law, Justice, and Public Policy. While at MSU, she was a member of the Honors College.